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iOS Object-Oriented Swift 2.0 Class Inheritance Overriding Methods

Haitham Alam
Haitham Alam
2,685 Points

Compiler is showing good

Hello Why is it wrong although compiler is showing it good.??

classes.swift
class Person {
    let firstName: String 
    let lastName: String

    init(firstName: String, lastName: String) {
        self.firstName = firstName
        self.lastName = lastName
    }

    func getFullName() -> String {
        return "\(firstName) \(lastName)"
    }
}

class Doctor: Person {
    override func getFullName() -> String {
        return "Haitham Alam"
    }

}
let someDoctor = Doctor(firstName: "HAitham", lastName: "Alam")

2 Answers

Paul Brazell
Paul Brazell
14,371 Points

The question tells you to have the overridden function return the person's name as Dr. "lastName". In your case you were hard coding your name in the return. All you need to do is return "Dr. (lastName)".

class Person {
    let firstName: String
    let lastName: String

    init(firstName: String, lastName: String) {
        self.firstName = firstName
        self.lastName = lastName
    }

    func getFullName() -> String {
        return "\(firstName) \(lastName)"
    }
}

class Doctor: Person {
    override func getFullName() -> String {
        return "Dr. \(lastName) "
    }

}
let someDoctor = Doctor(firstName: "HAitham", lastName: "Alam")